Gartner: Portals, Content and Collaboration isn’t just about the sessions and keynotes, it’s about building relationships with attendees and exhibitors alike. This week, many key social business vendors announced new releases and launches. Here are a few that caught our attention.

Games usually help us pass the time, but if we perceive games as a gateway to innovation, perhaps we should be taking games more seriously. This is Jane McGonigal’s assertion, anyway. And she makes a few good points. Welcome to day two of Gartner: Portals, Content and Collaboration.

When you write about the state of social business, like we do, it’s hard to notice the little things taking shape within the enterprise. At Gartner Portals, Content & Collaboration, those little things are taking center stage and making a big impression.

In the session The Social Workplace: Rethinking Communication and Collaboration in the Age of Social Networks, Nikos Drako asks us if we removed instant messaging, wikis and widgets, emails or the phone from our work environment, would we still be able to continue to work as we currently do?

We’re live from Gartner: Portals, Content and Collaboration Summit 2012 in Orlando, Florida this week and we’re very eager to roll up our sleeves and get down to details about how to develop, integrate and measure employee intranets, customer portals and oodles of multi-channel content.

There are many different perspectives on what's big in web content management (WCM) this year, and where better to hear them then from the crow's nests of WCM vendors themselves? Following are a number of brief interviews we conducted at the recent Gartner PCC and Forrester Marketing Forum events.